'Shattered' De Goey's text to Eagle after brutal hit

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Collingwood prima Jordan De Goey's three-match prohibition has divided opinions successful the AFL satellite arsenic the Magpie expressed his remorse for his brutal bump connected Elijah Hewett.

De Goey was sent consecutive to the tribunal by the MRO for his deed which near the 18-year-old concussed connected Saturday, with the AFL calling for a four-match prohibition portion the Magpies argued for three.

In the end, the tribunal sided with the Magpies aft De Goey explained his absorption to seeing Hewett sprawled connected the Optus Stadium aboveground pursuing the clash.

"I felt rather remorseful," helium told the tribunal.

"I don't spell retired determination to play my footy successful a soiled mode and to spot idiosyncratic get injured similar that was evidently disappointing and archetypal and foremost you disquieted astir the person, which was Elijah and past aft conscionable making definite he's OK.

Jordan De Goey says helium was 'shattered' aft realising he'd taken retired Hewett with a reckless bump (Paul Kane/Getty Images)

"It wasn't until I looked up astatine the surface I realised I caught Elijah high. I felt shattered for him personally."

De Goey revealed that he'd gotten Hewett's fig done Collingwood's media manager successful bid to apologise to the Eagles youngster, an apology that was well-received.

The tribunal's verdict received a mixed response, with AFL greats Kane Cornes and Gerard Healy arguing that the Magpies prima had gotten "lucky".

"I don't deliberation it's the clip for the AFL to trim the harshness to which they spot those incidents.

"He walks distant lucky, intelligibly helium was remorseful and that's played plentifulness of impact.

"But 4 I deliberation would person been the due sentence," Healy said connected SEN's Sportsday.

De Goey slammed implicit 'sickening' hit

"It appears beauteous light," added Cornes.

However, AFL fable Leigh Matthews said 3 matches was the close suspension successful the end.

"When you look astatine these incidents and you think, 'How galore weeks volition they get?', it's truly connected precedent. How galore weeks person been fixed for definite incidents?" helium told 3AW's Wide World of Sports Radio.

"I thought due to the fact that the feline got earnestly wounded helium got the 3 weeks. When I look astatine the bump, there's bumps and blocks that crook into bumps, and past you've got truly dense throwing your assemblage astatine the different subordinate (type bumps), and I'm not affirmative whether De Goey was successful that second category."

De Goey volition miss clashes against Melbourne, Adelaide and the Gold Coast owed to his suspension and is present ineligible to triumph the Brownlow Medal.

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